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The Milkweed Lands: An Epic Story of One Plant: Its Nature and Ecology

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Aug 27, 2026

The Yellow Wall-Paper

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The horror for me here was 100% the husband, enough to give me a nightmare. The subtle manipulation! The misogyny masked as love! Anyone who thought he was fine... Make sure you get a crew of sassy old women to vet your dating choices because honey no.

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman records her growing obsession with the “horrid” wallpaper. Its strange pattern mutates in the moonlight, revealing what appears to be a human figure in the design. With nothing else to occupy her mind, the woman resolves to unlock the mystery of the wallpaper. Her quest, however, leads not to the truth, but into the darkest depths of madness. A condemnation of the patriarchy, The Yellow Wallpaper explores with terrifying economy the oppression, grave misunderstanding, and willful dismissal of women in late nineteenth-century society. First published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. Excerpt: Out of another I get a lovely view of the bay and a little private wharf belonging to the estate. There is a beautiful shaded lane that runs down there from the house. I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and arbors, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least. He says that with my imaginative power and habit of story-making a nervous weakness like mine is sure to lead to all manner of excited fancies, and that I ought to use my will and good sense to check the tendency. So I try.

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Recommendations?? Step right up!!

Have a recommendation for this quest?? I wanna hear them all!! But please read this first!

As I mentioned in the Welcome & Introductions post - I'm keeping the specific criteria for this quest close to my chest until other similar quests drop and I don't want to potentially ruin the surprise! However, I will say this quest is multi-genre, so don't worry about trying to stay in a specific niche. If it feels like a fever dream (surreal, absurd, dreamlike), I would to know about it so I can consider it! Please be patient with me as I make my way through the recommendations!

You can suggest as many books as you like, but please submit one book per comment so other Boundlings can upvote the books they'd love to see on this quest tooo! Your comment should include the book title, author, and a link (or just the url) to the book's page on Pagebound so I know exactly which book to check out!

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I love how this group is called the Boy Luck Club 😄 It inspired me to put Gaysians on the list of community recs for Joy Luck Club, so if somebody eventually comes here from there, that was me ✋🏻 and I stand by that recommendation.

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and slept in your house for hours on end and gave birth to leverets in your study. For political advisor and speechwriter Chloe Dalton, who spent lockdown deep in the English countryside, far away from her usual busy London life, this became her unexpected reality.In February 2021, Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare—a leveret—that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how impossible it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton’s house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, stoats, feral cats, raptors, and even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death.Raising Hare chronicles their journey together, while also taking a deep dive into the lives and nature of hares, and the way they have been viewed historically in art, literature, and folklore. We witness first-hand the joy at this extraordinary relationship between human and animal, which serves as a reminder that the best things, and most beautiful experiences, arise when we least expect them.

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Bunnicula (Bunnicula, #1)

Deborah Howe

BEWARE THE HARE!Is he or isn't he a vampire? Before it's too late, Harold the dog and Chester the cat must find out the truth about the newest pet in the Monroe household -- a suspicious-looking bunny with unusual habits... and fangs!

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Aug 21, 2026

There Are Rivers in the Sky

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I think I've reached my sad book quota for the year now.

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Aug 21, 2026

There Are Rivers in the Sky

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I think I've reached my sad book quota for the year now.

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There Are Rivers in the Sky

Elif Shafak

From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about three characters living along two rivers, all under the shadow of one of the greatest epic poems of all time. “Make place for Elif Shafak on your bookshelf… you won’t regret it.” (Arundhati Roy) In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign. From its ruins, however, emerged a poem, the Epic of Gilgamesh, that would infuse the existence of two rivers and bind together three lives. In 1840 London, Arthur is born beside the stinking, sewage-filled River Thames. With an abusive, alcoholic father and a mentally ill mother, Arthur’s only chance of escaping destitution is his brilliant memory. When his gift earns him a spot as an apprentice at a leading publisher, Arthur’s world opens up far beyond the slums, and one book in particular catches his interest: Nineveh and Its Remains. In 2014 Turkey, Narin, a ten-year-old Yazidi girl, is diagnosed with a rare disorder that will soon cause her to go deaf. Before that happens, her grandmother is determined to baptize her in a sacred Iraqi temple. But with the rising presence of ISIS and the destruction of the family’s ancestral lands along the Tigris, Narin is running out of time. In 2018 London, the newly divorced Zaleekah, a hydrologist, moves into a houseboat on the Thames to escape her husband. Orphaned and raised by her wealthy uncle, Zaleekah had made the decision to take her own life in one month, until a curious book about her homeland changes everything. A dazzling feat of storytelling, There Are Rivers in the Sky entwines these outsiders with a single drop of water, a drop which remanifests across the centuries. Both a source of life and harbinger of death, rivers—the Tigris and the Thames—transcend history, transcend fate: “Water remembers. It is humans who forget.”

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Platform Decay

Martha Wells

Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment in Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series. Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good. Having volunteered to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realises that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know. Including human children. Ugh. This may well call for... eye contact! (Emotion check: Oh, for f—)

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I’m picking this one back up and will power through the confusion.

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Aug 19, 2026

System Collapse

4.0

Enjoyment: Quality: Characters: Plot: Audiobook: 4.5

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This book took longer to get into than the previous books in this series, maybe because there was initially less banter and more confusion with parts being redacted. But despite not connecting with this installment as much as the others, I continue to love how this series explores the boundary and relationship between humans and intelligent machines, as well as between machines and machines. No other book I've read delves into that topic with as much depth, empathy, and humor as this series, and I remain hooked!

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System Collapse

Martha Wells

Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse. Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back. Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation has sent rescue ships to a newly-colonized planet in peril, as well as additional SecUnits. But if there’s an ethical corporation out there, Murderbot has yet to find it, and if Barish-Estranza can’t have the planet, they’re sure as hell not leaving without something. If that something just happens to be an entire colony of humans, well, a free workforce is a decent runner-up prize. But there’s something wrong with Murderbot; it isn’t running within normal operational parameters. ART’s crew and the humans from Preservation are doing everything they can to protect the colonists, but with Barish-Estranza’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams, they’re going to have to hope Murderbot figures out what’s wrong with itself, and fast. Yeah, this plan is... not going to work.

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Museums and Memory

in deciding what will be remembered, a museum, any museum, is also deciding, in part, what will be forgotten.

This quote made me think of the Home Museum project from the African Artists' Foundation, which argues that every home is actually a miniature museum, showing items that have been preserved by the people living there.

"Louvre? Nah, my auntie's living room," the AAF says.

We sometimes think of institutions as the gatekeepers of memory, especially Western museums and universities, but in fact, every family and person can choose what's valuable and worth saving.

"Value is produced by attachment and memory, not price or rarity," the AAF says. "What the market calls worthless, memory calls priceless."

So when someone invites you into their home, they're actually giving you a free ticket into their museum! There are no plaques, but you only need to ask the guide (host) to hear the memories and stories behind each item.

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Community Recs

What books do you think are richer, more enjoyable, or easier to understand if you've read the Bible first?

Since so many novels borrow from the Bible, you could easily add a lot of books to the community recommendations. But since the connection between a novel and the Bible might be unclear at first, here's a place to explain why you've added certain books to the recs list!

For example, I added The Fellowship of the Ring because Tolkien's novels share the same epic quality and linguistic quirks as the Bible (using words like "Behold" and "Praise him with great praise!"), plus a mostly male cast and a tendency to break into poetry at random moments.

I also added Gideon the Ninth because the whole Locked Tomb series is saturated with religious imagery and Biblical themes, which can be confusing if you don't have that background. See: "Queering the Eucharist in Tamsyn Muir's The Locked Tomb" or "Tamsyn Muir on Lyctorhood as Genderfuckery and Greasy Bible Study".

I'd love to see more recommendations so bring them on!

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